Invited speaker: Enrique SolanoAffiliation: University of the Basque Country, BilbaoTitle: Digital and Analog Quantum Simulations in Superconducting CircuitsTime and room: 17:15, lecture hall IAPAbstract: I will introduce the concept of quantum simulation as a means of reproducing physical and unphysical models onto another quantum system, which is tpyically more controllable. I will explain the role played by analog and digital quantum simulators in different quantum platforms, while providing specific examples in superconducting circuits. Furthermore, I will discuss the possible merge of digital and analog concepts to reach quantum supremacy in this promising quantum technology.

Invited speaker: Fabian GrusdtAffiliation: Harvard UniversityTitle: Quantum impurities in strongly correlated phases of ultracold atomsTime and room: 17:15, lecture hall IAPAbstract: The detection and control on the level of individual lattice sites achieved by experiments with ultracold atoms and photons allows for new measurements which are difficult to realize using traditional solid-state setups. This makes such systems ideal candidates to explore exotic phases of matter, including the fractional quantum Hall effect or high-temperature superconductors. An overview will be given of the recent progress towards reaching this goal with cold atom quantum simulators. The main theme of this talk are mobile quantum impurities inside the strongly correlated quantum systems described above. On the one hand, impurities can be used as coherent probes of the many-body system. Specifically I will show how topological invariants can be measured in a fractional quantum Hall setup in this way. In other cases, impurities are at the heart of the many-body problem itself: For example, the high-temperature superconducting phase is obtained by doping mobile holes into a Mott insulator with anti-ferromagnetic spin correlations. A simple physical theory of a single hole in such systems will be presented.

Invited speaker: David WeissAffiliation: Pennsylvania State UniversityTitle: What does it take for a closed quantum system to thermalize?Time and room: 17:15, lecture hall IAPAbstract: An integrable many-body system has as many conserved quantities are particles. I will explain how these extra constraints keep such a system from thermalizing in a conventional way. One dimensional gases of neutral atoms are nearly integrable quantum many-body systems. I will describe how we make and study these 1D gases, and how we are trying to use them to understand the fundamental limits of statistical mechanics.

During the last decade, numerous developments have not only improved and matured technology and signal processing methods of RADAR systems, but also paved the road for many new applications besides its traditional domains in defence and space. The rapid progress in performance of highly integrated electronic components (digital, analogue or mixed-signal) has enabled several trends such as miniaturisation and cost reduction of sensor devices, a migration to higher frequencies in the millimetre and Terahertz domain, or real-time execution of mathematically complex signal and array processing methods. On the other hand, the electromagnetic spectrum is a scarce and strongly controlled resource that is proving to be increasingly valuable. Radar devices must be able to handle more signal bandwidth with greater receiver sensitivity and are competing with an increasing number of other systems for communication, navigation, or wireless connectivity. In this environment, it is necessary to understand the different requirements and find strategies of a co-existence without performance degradation.
The presentation gives an overview of recent developments at Fraunhofer FHR and application examples such as airborne and ground based surveillance, Digital Beam Forming AESA systems, or Cognitive Radar Architecture.

Heat engines, as employed in cars, ships and airplanes, are everyday examples showing that heat can produce directed motion. The efficient conversion of thermal energyto mechanical work by an engine is, however, an ongoing technological challenge. Since the pioneering work of Carnot, it is known that the efficiency of engines is boundedby a fundamental upper limit ‑ the Carnot limit. Nowadays, micro- and nanotechnological methods allow to test thermodynamics far away from the thermodynamic limit.Highly miniaturized forms of heat engines have been experimentally realized, where the working medium is represented by a single particle instead of 10^23 particles as inthe macroscopic world. Theoretical studies suggest that the efficiency of such engines may overcome the standard Carnot limit by employing stationary, non-equilibriumreservoirs that are characterized by a temperature as well as further parameters, for example, quantum coherent, quantum correlated and squeezed thermal reservoirs. In aproof-of-principle experiment, we demonstrate that the efficiency of a minimalist nano-mechanical heat engine coupled to squeezed thermal noise is not bounded by the standard Carnot limit. Furthermore, a cycle process can be realized that allows to extract mechanical work from a single squeezed thermal reservoir. These results quantitatively test our understanding of non-equilibrium thermodynamics at small scales and provide a new perspective on the design of efficient, highly miniaturized engines.